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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Kinesis

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Kinesis is a streaming analytics suite for data intake from video or other disparate sources and applying analytics for machine learning (ML) and business intelligence.

    $0.01

    per GB data ingested / consumed

    Azure AI Search

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AAzure AI Search (formerly Azure Cognitive Search) is enterprise search as a service, from Microsoft.

    $0.10

    Per Hour

    Pricing
    Amazon KinesisAzure AI Search
    Editions & Modules
    Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
    $0.00850
    per GB data ingested / consumed
    Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
    $0.04
    per hour per stream
    Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
    $0.11
    per hour
    Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
    tiered pricing starting at $0.029
    per month first 500 TB ingested
    Basic
    $0.101
    Per Hour
    Standard S1
    $0.336
    Per Hour
    Standard S2
    $1.344
    Per Hour
    Standard S3
    $2.688
    Per Hour
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon KinesisAzure AI Search
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Amazon KinesisAzure AI Search
    Streaming Analytics
    Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Amazon Kinesis and Azure AI Search
    Feature
    Amazon Kinesis
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Azure AI Search
    -
    Ratings
    Real-Time Data Analysis10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Low Latency9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrated Development Tools9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data wrangling and preparation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Linear Scale-Out6.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Enrichment5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Amazon KinesisAzure AI Search
    Small Businesses
    Google Cloud Dataflow
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Elasticsearch
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Elasticsearch
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Spotfire Streaming
    Score5 out of 10
    Amazon CloudSearch
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon KinesisAzure AI Search
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.3
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.3
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon KinesisAzure AI Search
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    Amazon Kinesis is a great replacement for Kafka and it works better whenever the components of the solution are AWS based. Best if extended fan-out is not required, but still price-performance ratio is very good for simplifying maintenance.
    I would go with a different option if the systems to be connected are legacy, for instance in the case of traditional messaging clients.
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    Microsoft
    It's very useful when used with large file systems, once the models index the files good enough, the suggestions are very impressive and produce grounded answers. Since it can natively work with blob storage the requirement for pre-processing the data is eliminated i.e. the data can be searched in its raw form, this makes Azure AI Search a very powerful tool when used with Azure Stack.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Processing huge loads of data
    • Integrating well with IoT Platform on Amazon
    • Integration with overall AWS Ecosystem
    • Scalability
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    Microsoft
    • Incredibly robust back-end infrastructure.
    • Streamlined integration into Microsoft's Azure Cloud.
    • From a user standpoint, it lets the customer easily access their data and provide useful search tips.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Not a queue system, so little visibility into "backlog" if there is any
    • Confusing terminology to make sure events aren't missed
    • Sometimes didn't seem to trigger Lambda functions, or dropped events when a lot came in
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    Microsoft
    • Like virtually all Azure services, it has first-class treatment for .Net as the developer platform of choice, but largely ignores other options. While there is a first-party Python SDK, there are only community packages for other languages like Ruby and Node. Might be a game of roulette for those to be kept up-to-date. This might make it a non-starter for some teams that don't want to do the work to integrate with the REST API directly.
    • In my opinion, partitions inside of Azure Search don't count as data segregation for customers in a multi-tenant app, so any application where you have many customers with high-security concerns, Azure Search is probably a non-starter.
    • To elaborate on the multi-tenant issue: Azure Search's approach to pricing is pretty steep. While there is a free tier for small applications (50MB of content or less) the first paid tier is about 14x more expensive than the first SQL Database tier that supports full-text search. For many applications, it makes a lot more economic sense to just run some LIKE or CONTAINS queries on columns in a table rather than going with Azure Search.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
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    Microsoft
    I give 10 rating because by using this endpoint and api key only we able to build that chatbot product in a timeline given by our client and also creating the endpoint and keys from the portal is also very easy for Azure AI Search and it doesn't take much time and also scalability is good.
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    The documentation was confusing and lacked examples. The streams suddenly stopped working with no explanation and there was no information in the logs. All these were more difficult when dealing with enhanced fan-out. In fact, we were about to abort the usage of Kinesis due to a misunderstanding with enhanced fan-out.
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    Microsoft
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    The main benefit was around set up - incredibly easy to just start using Kinesis. Kinesis is a real-time data processing platform, while Kafka is more of a message queue system. If you only need a message queue from a limited source, Kafka may do the job. More complex use cases, with low latency, higher volume of data, real time decisions and integration with multiple sources and destination at a decent price, Kinesis is better.
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    Microsoft
    It is good for me, and I want to rate this product 9/10. I hope they continue to improve and also offer a free plan with more benefits to learn Azure AI Search.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Caused us to need to re-engineer some basic re-try logic
    • Caused us to drop some content without knowing it
    • Made monitoring much more difficult
    • We eventually switched back to SQS because Kinesis is not the same as a Queue system
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    Microsoft
    • When integrated with our existing file system the Azure AI Search helped users tremendously by reducing search times and improve efficacy of intended result.
    • Since Azure AI Search is a PaaS solution, we had very short ideation to go-live timespan, which ended up reflecting in our product performance.
    • A rare but not negligible occurrence was correctness of search being questionable when new data was added to the system. The search returns false positive results.
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